The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has upheld Electric Boat’s request to use an eastern Long Island Sound dredging disposal site, according to a news release from the Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney’s office.

NOAA’s decision will allow dredging work that is essential to EB’s new South Yard Assembly Building – which will house upcoming construction for the new Columbia-class Submarine program – to move forward, despite lingering, unfounded legal challenges to the ELDS levied by the State of New York.